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In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is ...

Everyone is familiar with the light dome that shows from afar where cities are brightly lit at night. Artificial light that ...

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Redondo Beach — The Trump administration’s targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will jeopardize ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

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Have you seen the clear, gelatinous creatures all over Grand Strand beaches? Here’s what the blobs are and why they’re ...

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